#blessupdate

To reflect the first ever post in my tenure—

I am now the bearer of bittersweet news. Bless The Teens has come to its end, its proper one. 

It has been a privilege to run this group for more than 1.5 years. It is not my effort that has catapulted this roleplay to long-term success, and not only the folks included on the kudos page but most of all, the commitment and energy of the various members who have graced this group. 

Running this group has been most unexpected. What started out as a fun short-term project, turned into an honest to goodness memory and key part of my roleplaying experience. 

Although my heart will always be with the memories of this group, real life has not only stripped me of my time, but my energy from this project. I do not plan to continue Bless, but my openness to another doing so is up for discussion. (In brutal honesty, this concept is generic) 

Hey guys! 

After some thought and a lack of contact, I’ve decided to start thinking about Bless The Teens’ fate. Activity has been a little slow recently — due to lack of time and/or interest (I have no idea) — so I do have an ultimatum of sorts at hand. 

I haven’t heard or seen much from members recently, but I don’t want to reach conclusions. Please message the main or even like this post if you’re interested in Bless The Teens continuing! If interest is viable, one can look forward to a reboot around late November (in time for almost two years!). Otherwise, bidding farewell to this group is just as sweet.  

A rough deadline is around September 25th. I don’t want to pressure anyone into ‘the future of Bless’ but, genuine interest is valued over everything else.   

Hello! 

If you’ve logged into your character account recently, you may have noticed a message from darrenhaas or vidconjunkie. This is a special kind of checkup that poses a question. Do you have the muse or interest? 

We strongly suggest replying to these messages. Feedback is encouraged but a simple “No I will not be returning” will suffice if that’s your case. 

The ceremony takes place this Friday morning, the 19th.

If you wish, you may write a little something about the ceremony or create anything like a playlist, moodboard, graphic, etc. 

In order to maximize the gossip experience, we’re going to request that once a week (or more if you feel the need), everyone MUST post a gossip update for your character under a read more tagged #blessthegossip. These gossip updates must conform to these rules:

Speaks predominantly of events taking place with your character during the week. May involve other characters; however, focus on your character and the results and ramifications of their actions. 

Must be three-six sentences long. 

Has to be tagged under #blessthegossip.

Posted at least once a week. 

These gossip updates will work as the main source of information for the gossip blog’s articles; however, feel free to continue sending in messages about occurrences that take place. Anything from drunken hookups to fights to rehab stints to drug deals can be mentioned. These updates can stem from interactions your character had over the week or personal headcanons. 

Please like this post to indicate that you have read this.

Here are some examples:

If you like details as much as I do, this post might alleviate any fears of Bless malfunctioning while half the admin team is gone. I’ll be taking a combination of full and semi-hiatuses, irregularity that assures that I can be here but not detached completely. This isn’t a mandatory read but more of a “fyi”.

I’ve got exams for the next two months so being active is quite difficult with no distractions preferable. 

Until May 8th, I’ll be on full hiatus. 

From May 9th to 15th, I’ll be around. 

From May 15th to 22nd, on hiatus again. 

I’ll be back fully for another week (last of May) and most of June. I still have exams until mid-June but there’s less so I could afford to be around. 

My availability is totally subject to change but what’ll be affected most is character graphics and tasks! Apologies for both. I don’t quite have the mental energy nor space to devote myself to those things, but hopefully it can get started up once summer comes, when I could possibly pick up a character too. 

For the convenience of the anon who asked earlier and everyone else I’ve just gone through and tagged all the bios we currently have published with clique tags. You can see each tag by clicking the clique title of your choice on this page here. I hope that makes it a bit easier!

In other updates and so on -

Admin L is going on hiatus for a while, I’ll leave her to give you any details she wants in her own post. The only thing this will affect is character biographies because I’m still trying to find a way to get them right since my photoshop started coming up with errors. I’ve got nothing important coming up so I’ll still be able to run things -- if anything, I’ll have more time.

With the very obvious lapse in activity due to exams and other personal reasons, we are being a bit more relaxed in terms of activity check. But we still want you guys to try your hardest to get on when you can. If you need to take a hiatus, message us with the details and the date you plan to be back and we’ll work with that.

There’s been a couple of issues still popping up with starter stacking and dropped threads. Starter stacking won’t be tolerated anymore, it’s becoming a little bit silly that we see it every time we go into the tag. As for dropping threads, we understand it’s hard to keep something going if you don’t have muse for it, but do try to write threads to completion. Character development is what we like to see here and it’s hard to do that when people stop replying after two responses.

I just want to put a quick reminder in here that having parties or little events are encouraged. Any big events such as trips and big school events should be run past admins first, but if you want your character to throw a birthday party or maybe get people involved in sporting events like football games and etc, go right ahead. If you’ve made it this far, send us a message telling us if you would enjoy a collaborative inspiration/shipping blog or not. We still ask that any group (3 or more character) chatzys or neatchats be run past an admin.

“You going to Fling’ this year? Wanna take a bet on how many flower crowns we see this year?”   

Please like this post to confirm you understand what’s going on. Track #blessFlingFest for updates throughout this event from not only the main, but your experiences!